Meditations

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Welcome yogis! Led by Natalie Marquez, R.Y.T., Redemptive Yoga blends traditional Hatha style yoga with Biblical meditations in a spiritually uplifting, and soul nourishing environment. Body work elements such as flexibility, balance, strength and breathing techniques are taught in skill-based series classes. Students may grow in their personal yoga practice from foundational beginners poses to gradual additions of standing, bending, twist, inversion and challenge poses. As we focus on and rest before God in this unique class design, we cultivate a strong body and disciplined mind, given over to His Spirit’s influence. In this practice of joyful movement and prayer, we are left with a greater experience of His Presence, freedom and peace.

Natalie Marquez is a distance runner, personal trainer, coach, spinning instructor and yoga lover. Playful and passionate, she first discovered yoga at age twenty-five while training for her first half-marathon. Several years later, lung trauma and a doctor’s diagnosis predicted she would be unable to live a healthy, active lifestyle reintroduced her to her practice. In yoga she found time with God, breathe work, and comfort while she rested and waited for complete physical recovery. Holding degrees in Biblical Studies, Recreation Management and Physical Education, she is also Yoga Alliance teacher certified (The Yoga Institute, 200 Hour, Houston Texas). Currently she is perusing Yoga Fit’s Yoga Therapist certification (500 Hour Level) and has her eye set on competing in triathlons. Natalie moved to Redding in 2009 to join the community at Bethel Church. In spring 2011 she began her studio at Affinity Skin Clinic, where she continues to build her practice and share her heart.